Discover what makes you you and then zoom out again to your role in society and the footprint you leave behind in the educational exhibition INSIDE OUT.

Zaaloverzicht BINNENSTEBUITEN, Bonnefanten 2023. Foto:Ivory van Appeven

Play, explore and discover

No other exhibition allows you to touch, listen, climb, talk and craft so much! All curious, non-adults of 6 years and up are welcome at INSIDE OUT


INSIDE OUT, Bonnefanten 2023. Photo: Ivory van Appeven

Zaaloverzicht BINNENSTEBUITEN, Bonnefanten 2023. Foto:Ivory van Appeven

From the dreamy inner world of a child to the big outside world of an adolescent. Go through the developmental stages of a child at INSIDE OUT, the exhibition for all curious non-adults of 6 years and up. You'll do and see things you wouldn't normally expect to see in a museum.


INSIDE OUT, Bonnenfanten 2023. Photo: Ivory van Appeven.

Morena Bamberger, Ethereality, 2019. Collectie Kunstenaar.

Inside ...

You take your first steps in the room-filling installation Ethereality by artist Morena Bamberger as if you’re seeing the world for the first time. Wonder and notice that you are getting to know yourself better and better, just like your environment. Further on, you see crooked walls coming towards you. This setting looks a bit different from what you might be used to.


Morena Bamberger, Ethereality, 2019. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Manor Lux.

INSIDE OUT, Bonnefanten 2023. Photo: Ivory van Appeven

“Ritterbex’ yourself! Take a filter and stand in front of the mirror.

Mathilde ter Heijne, Life inside storage, 1998. Collectie Bonnefanten.

Outside ...

Your world is getting larger. Stuff takes up an increasingly important place. You walk into a work of art made of boxes. Mathilde ter Heijne's Life Inside Storage shows the contrast between the need for your own place with personal belongings and the high price that people and the environment have to pay for this.


Mathilde ter Heijne, Life inside storage, 1998. Collection Bonnefanten.

Otobang Nkanga, Steel to rust meltdown, 2016. Collection Bonnefanten.

Fernando del Rincon, Navolger De H. Andreas redt een bisschop, ca 1500. Collectie Bonnefanten.

INSIDE OUT mostly features artworks from our own collection, such as Otobong Nkanga, Tanja Ritterbex, Mathilde Ter Heijne, Philippe Coclers and the Polling ceramics collection. Alongside our own collection, the exhibition shows loans by Morena Bamberger and Joëlle Dubois.

The design of the exhibition was created by Studio La Meul, Rotterdam.


Fernando del Rincon navolger, De Heilige Andreas redt een bisschop, circa 1500. Collection Bonnefanten.

Morena Bamberger, Ethereality, 2019. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Manor Lux.

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INSIDE OUT for all curious non-adults of 6 years and up

Discover what makes you you and then zoom out again to your role in society and the footprint you leave behind in the educational exhibition INSIDE OUT.

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